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homeowner 39 22.41%
renter 69 39.66%
stupid peace of poo poo 66 37.93%
Total: 174 votes
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Varkk
Apr 17, 2004

Remember, friends don't let friends use Spark as their ISP.

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Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum
Last time I read the fine print of the major ISP's traffic shaping/management policies, it wasn't even a competition. Spark was the best by a landslide.
Whenever friends and family make a quick decision to move to Vodafone to save a ~$10 a year or something they always regret it. Theoretical line speeds are the same but in practice they are almost always worse.

For mobile it seems to be the opposite, I've been with Vodafone since they gobbled up Bellsouth and I can't remember a time when they haven't been the most competitive in the prepay space (the new flexi plans are stupid good value).

(I know it's bad timing to praise Spark when they just had a bunch of major network outages but whatever...)

Varkk
Apr 17, 2004

There is only one residential ISP worse than Spark and that is Vodafone.

klen dool
May 7, 2007

Okay well me being wrong in some limited situations doesn't change my overall point.
I've been on vodafone cable for 10 years plus, and I've never not been able to get the speeds I am paying for - outside of outages etc....

cptn_dr
Sep 7, 2011

Seven for beauty that blossoms and dies


I use Skinny for my mobile plan because it's the best for data. Annoyingly their network is also Spark's, so it's been down all day too

cptn_dr
Sep 7, 2011

Seven for beauty that blossoms and dies


Before I switched to Skinny I was on Vodafone and man gently caress Vodafone forever

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
Hooray for Auckland Anniversary!

No hooray for the entire set of payruns to be paid Tuesday!

And I gotta do it again next week!

Fuuuuuck.

e: At least I have work, I guess.

de: Aaaaaand the IRD's upgrading their site so I gotta get my IR345s and EMSes all in by tomorrow, instead of by the 5th. All 54 of 'em. Fuuuuuuuuuuuck.

WarpedNaba fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Jan 31, 2017

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

WarpedNaba posted:


de: Aaaaaand the IRD's upgrading their site so I gotta get my IR345s and EMSes all in by tomorrow, instead of by the 5th. All 54 of 'em. Fuuuuuuuuuuuck.

My accounts lady aka missus is gonna love this.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
This is great

http://www.togetherwmn.nz/

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!

Slavvy posted:

My accounts lady aka missus is gonna love this.

If she asks why I'm leaving my submissions until now, tell her that we paid the week ending the 29th tonight, so it falls in the January period. I literally could not start until 4pm today.



Oh hey, one of my flatmates' from Kosovo, got conscripted into the conflict. He's trying to bring his family over here - I passed on a notebook laptop so he could at least Skype with them.

klen dool
May 7, 2007

Okay well me being wrong in some limited situations doesn't change my overall point.

I work where this is made :D

Varkk
Apr 17, 2004

Did Bill English get drunk and call a snap election? Find out at 2 pm.

Hillary 2024
Nov 13, 2016

by vyelkin

Varkk posted:

Did Bill English get drunk and call a snap election? Find out at 2 pm.

September 23rd. 7 months, 23 days. Mark your calendar.

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Done. I actually have the energy to go campaigning nowadays so I will be looking to do it for either labour or the greens.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
We need migrants, but we don't need leftovers from Middle East terrorist regimes. If you turn up to the border with an apple, you get done. If you turn up with an Iraqi passport and references from Saddam Hussein, you get in.

whiter than a Wilco show
Mar 30, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

exmarx posted:

We need migrants, but we don't need leftovers from Middle East terrorist regimes. If you turn up to the border with an apple, you get done. If you turn up with an Iraqi passport and references from Saddam Hussein, you get in.

Source your quotes

Hillary 2024
Nov 13, 2016

by vyelkin

New Zealand Herald reader comments Prime Minister Bill English

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2017/02/bill-english-we-don-t-need-middle-east-leftovers.html

Spiteski
Aug 27, 2013



What New Zealand really needs is a wall.


National will turn that green light red.

SurreptitiousMuffin
Mar 21, 2010
What's the listenerbase for RNZ like? If it's on-par with NZ in general, these poll results are looking pretty hilarious

http://www.radiolive.co.nz/BREAKFAS...99/Default.aspx

Poor Bill English. He's like the word 'moist' made into a person.

whiter than a Wilco show
Mar 30, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

If he's that in tune with nz news article comments National are only just beginning their thousand year Reich.

The Rabbi T. White
Jul 17, 2008





SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

What's the listenerbase for RNZ like? If it's on-par with NZ in general, these poll results are looking pretty hilarious

http://www.radiolive.co.nz/BREAKFAS...99/Default.aspx

Poor Bill English. He's like the word 'moist' made into a person.

RadioLive ain't RNZ. Their listeners tend to be more to the right.

Hillary 2024
Nov 13, 2016

by vyelkin
Can't wait for Trump to call on Bill English: https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...e05d_story.html

El Pollo Blanco
Jun 12, 2013

by sebmojo

I'm looking forward to when our right wing world leaders realise they will still get treated like poo poo no matter how much they fellate Trump, and refuse to condemn any terrible things the GOP does.

Oh wait, that'll never happen, who am I kidding.

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!

Spiteski posted:

What New Zealand really needs is a wall.


National will turn that green light red.

Tamaki Drive could use a new sea wall, what with the climate-change-enhanced flooding from poo poo weather it's been having.

Wandle Cax
Dec 15, 2006

El Pollo Blanco posted:

I'm looking forward to when our right wing world leaders realise they will still get treated like poo poo no matter how much they fellate Trump, and refuse to condemn any terrible things the GOP does.


Don't think anyones fellating Trump mate, he's doing his best to alienate as many countries as he can

Varkk
Apr 17, 2004

Wandle Cax posted:

Don't think anyones fellating Trump mate, he's doing his best to alienate as many countries as he can

He is but they still fall in line hoping he throws some scraps their way.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.



lol

Robo Captain
Sep 28, 2013
https://twitter.com/pmbillenglish/status/826941656196796417

Go gently caress yourself

E: x2

https://mobile.twitter.com/pmbillenglish/status/826941555239854080

Robo Captain fucked around with this message at 12:31 on Feb 2, 2017

Somfin
Oct 25, 2010

In my🦚 experience🛠️ the big things🌑 don't teach you anything🤷‍♀️.

Nap Ghost

Yeah, we do that already in the system we've got, it's called 'being paid to work'

Unless you're suggesting a massive increase to the minimum wage, Billo, in which case rock on

The Schwa
Jul 1, 2008

look, National's still got it! some good old fashioned bennie bashing

Kathleen
Feb 26, 2013

Grimey Drawer

'bourgeois blood will water the tree of democracy' i mutter as i rock back and forth

El Pollo Blanco
Jun 12, 2013

by sebmojo
Haha so much for Bill 'the catholic' English practising compassionate conservatism.

emminou
May 25, 2006


what a fucken piece of poo poo, how do you write that and not immediately collapse into a piile of self-loathing

Spiteski
Aug 27, 2013



emminou posted:

what a fucken piece of poo poo, how do you write that and not immediately collapse into a piile of self-loathing

By collapsing into a pile of financial safety and cultural security.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
Nice to see Bill abandon his social investment stuff immediately



how old is this file photo

Binkenstein
Jan 18, 2010


This is one of those cases where I like to use the phrase "Roflcopters".

My partner is unemployed but because I "earn too much" is unable to qualify for any assistance. Nevermind the fact that she was the subject of a sexual assault less than half a year after National did away with the specific benefits that could have helped her, defunding the support system that helped her after it or that she has a chronic illness that could be managed much better if a) doctors were able to prescribe enough medication (primarily for pain management) and b) appointments to see specialists didn't take half a year. Maybe more funding would help avoid the multiple St John callouts, A&E trips or visits to After-Hours doctors.

This is just a nice way of saying "We'll give you a pat on the back if you do this, but we won't really help you in any way".

Varkk
Apr 17, 2004

Never mind that the best way to get people off benefits is to have meaningful jobs for people to do.
Unemployment and benefit dependence is mostly due to lack of jobs over anything else.

whiter than a Wilco show
Mar 30, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

Varkk posted:

Never mind that the best way to get people off benefits is to have meaningful jobs for people to do.
Unemployment and benefit dependence is mostly due to lack of jobs over anything else.

Employers (and National lol) absolutely do not want 100% employment. They need a beneficiary class, and they need the life of that class to be loving awful, to maintain power over employees.

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

whiter than a Wilco show posted:

Employers (and National lol) absolutely do not want 100% employment. They need a beneficiary class, and they need the life of that class to be loving awful, to maintain power over employees.

Capitalism don't work without poor cunts, it's true.

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WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!

those chairs posted:

'bourgeois blood will water the tree of democracy' i mutter as i rock back and forth

Come on, we're not all bad.

I mean I'm pretty bad, but hopefully not get murdered bad.

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